Motivational Quotes

Change

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Change

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

2.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

3.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

4.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

5.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

6.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

7.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

8.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

9.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

10.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

11.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

12.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

13.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

14.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

15.

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

16.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

17.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

18.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

19.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

20.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

21.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

22.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

23.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

24.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

25.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

26.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

28.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

29.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

30.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

31.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

32.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

33.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

34.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

35.

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

36.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

37.

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

38.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

39.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

41.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

42.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

43.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

44.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

45.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

46.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

47.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

48.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

49.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

50.

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.